Webmastering

The Web team maintain and develop the FSFE's websites —
ranging from fsfe.org to project and campaign
sites. Webmasters are volunteers working to enhance the
organization's face to the world, and to improve the technical
solutions of our web efforts.

Get to know us, get to know the website

If you want to get an idea of what work on FSFE's website consists
of, the best way is to come have a chat with us. Some of the
webmasters are regularly on freenode's #fsfe channel, where we
will be happy to meet you and answer your questions!
To check out who is working on the website, and with
FSFE as a whole, visit the FSFE's team page and the specific Web team page.

Your web coordinator, Paul Hänsch.

Introduction

The technologies and programs used to maintain the FSFE web page
should already be familiar to many developers and authors and might be of
interest to those that have not yet discovered them.

Translators and occasional volunteers will most likely only get in touch
with

Understanding how the web pages are built

The web pages of fsfe.org are maintaned as a set of
XML files. The web server generates the HTML pages from these XML files
automatically every ten minutes. Consequently, all editing of the pages
is done in the XML files, and the HTML is never edited directly.

Every page on fsfe.org is named
pagename.language.html
(language being the two-letter ISO-639
code of the language, like "en" for English or "de" for German).
The source files are named
pagename.language.xhtml.

Some pages have a dynamic part: apart from the fixed texts taken
from the XHTML file, they include information from one or several
XML files. Whenever such a page is built, the build system takes
the translated XML files where available, and falls back to the
English version of those XML files that have not yet been
translated. This way, such pages can end up with parts of the
text being translated and other parts still showing in English.
Examples of such pages include the start page, the
news page, and the events
page.